Publications in voice and music acoustics

This page has only publications in the field of acoustics from the UNSW team. The two academic staff of the Music Acoustics Lab work also in biophysics. See John Smith's page and the publications of Joe Wolfe. The following links are to the pages of the recent research staff in the group, which include their prior research: André Almeida and Maëva Garnier.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Almeida, A., Li, W., Smith, J. and Wolfe, J. (2017) "The mechanism for initial transients on the clarinet" J. Acoust. Soc. America, 142, 3376-3386.
Copyright (2016) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The preceeding article appeared in JASA142, 3376-3386 and may be found at J. Acoust. Soc. America.

Smith, J. and Wolfe, J. (2009) "Wagner’s music is even better than it sounds: implications of vowel-pitch matching for intelligibility and ease of singing" In Second International Conference on Music Communication Science, Sydney.

Smith, J. and Wolfe, J. (2005) "The role of vocal tract resonances in singing and in playing wind instruments". in "Acoustics in a changing environment". ed T. McMinn. Publishers Australian Acoustical Society. (ISBN 0-900882-23-1) 297 - 303.

Multimedia

Wolfe, J. (2002) "Speech and music, acoustics and coding, and
what music might be 'for'". The "
extraordinary plenary session": a musical and scientific debate
on the topic. From the International Conference on Music Perception
and Cognition, Sydney. K Stevens, D. Burnham, G. McPherson,
E. Schubert, J. Renwick, eds.

Wolfe, J. (1985) "The legal and moral status of embryos" Nature, 315, 92.
and some pieces in the "Ask the experts" section of The Science Teacher (the journal of the American Association of Science Teachers).